Show I SELLING ABROAD I AT LOWER PRICES c Ii I 1 fly Ily Whiter Walter WIer 1 1 J I. I Discussing this burning so- so called question Is like threshing out old oll straw the straw the only result resul Is wind It I Ihas has been heen dl discussed cuse In almost every ever election campaign for 01 the tho past half hai century or more Clu Clay answered it I Blame Dalno Inn answered it I It McKinley an- an It I. I Senator answered i It and on only th the lie other day Secretary Shaw quoted the thc answering figures of the tho 1900 campaign namely that tl the records of the Industrial Commission Commis Commis- sion of the United States show U by th the testimony of ot manufacturers In various arlous lines that In some some cases American factory Jnes prod products were occasionally sold old abroad dumped the they called caIet it I at lower prices than at home It I was figured out then and not refuted then nor no since that the total annual value of or the goods gOOdR s SO o sold olt or ot 01 dumped lumped was only S or only third one of one per cent of or our annual factory factor product of as shown by the twelfth census of the United States popularly known as the census of or I 1000 OO That Is Is all al the wool wooi there Is behind the present cr cry A few days a ago o tho New ew York Sun which is not by y an any means a stand pat newspaper said sid That ar argument that because a asmal small smal percentage of the output of or a factory Is told sold abroad at prices G 6 G. G 10 or 20 O per cent below the quotations In the home market therefore tho the domestic prices can and should be reduced reduced reduced re re- re- re to the foreign quotation Is entirely entirely en en- fallacious A claim that such in m argument is sound Is the equivalent equivalent lent of an assertion that our merchants mer mer- chants hants and manufacturers are making an in unholy pi profit of It on their goods and that competition imposes no restraint on in their extortionate greed Moreover More More- over ver If 11 we arc are to cond condemn mn and prohibit prohibit pro pro- hibit dumping by Americans or enforce enforce enforce en en- force an equality of prices In home lionie hohe and foreign markets markets we must on strictly moral morl grounds decline to countenance countenance countenance coun coun- or oi permit the very common practice o of Importing merchandise e a at dumping prices prices Even en en E more than that thata a a properly consistent morality would woul oblige e us to prohibit all al bargain counters counters countess coun coun- tess all al realization sales rles of surplus stock at nt special discounts discounts and al all genuine or fictitious closing out lesat sales les at reduced prices Take the Iron and steel trade for tot Instance Certain products products products pro pro- ducts of or the Industry are arc sold soll abroad at lower prices pries than they command here The market so o secured enables the American manufacturer to keep his Ills plant running steadily He lie Is able abe abeto to retain hl his force Coree steadily employed all an the year e r round instead of or being compelled to la lay It off of until the tho domestic demand Increases It I CO costs ts a great reat deal of money to shut shutdown shutdown shutdown down an any one of oC these plants plant both to the employer er and arid to his workmen and the lie abit ability to sell sel at cost or 01 even below cost has very ven decided an ad tares There are sounder arguments for Cor tariff adjustment than which can be drawn from dum dumping ping That argument Is clear concise and to the point and as it i Is not made b by a stand patter pater but by a conservative con con- o tariff revisionist It comes conies with added force In this controversy It must also bc be remembered that there Is Js a very heavy expense for Cor advertising selling agents agents' traveling rig and commissions freights making collections tC attendant up up- on for instance farm nu machinery and other goods sold for tor u uso o over the thc wide area of ot tho the United States In which so 80 many of the buyers live Jve hundreds and anti In man many eases cases thou thousands n s o of miles mies awa away from where the goods are made and best known All Al this expense h has hasto hasto to be added to the factory factor cost price with the before before be be- together torether wih factory profit fore foe the retail selling price Is reached It I Is therefore eminently ml misleading and and unfair to compare spot cash spot export ex cx port prices F. 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B B factory factor with wih retail rt re- re tall tail tal selling prices on the fields fels of Kansas Kan Kan- sas ss of the hills of or Colorado of goo goods s made mache In Eastern factories Still further It I must not be forgotten forgot ten that for Cor mal molting making the goods gools sold abroad at lower prices In forced foreign for eign markets the wage earner ware gets Just as much for his labor as he lie lees does for or making the same articles for sale oven even in his own town It I matters matter's mateis matei's not notto notto notto to him whether the cultivator Is sold for Cor 30 in Kansas KanEa or for Cor 22 for or export to South America America he gets Just as a much wages for tor the one as for forthe forthe forthe the other and he has double work work work- that is he ho makes two cultis cultivators tors In Instead Instead instead In- In stead of oC one and earns twice as much wages wager wareS If I an any one suffers b by the op operation op- op It I Is the thieving trust so- so called caled not the wage wase earner Nor does the farmer In Kansas suffer Were Vele it i not that b by being able to e export port the surplus over oer home homo needs the manufacturer would not be beable beable able to mal o so man many cultivators arhe as ar ashe a he docs does Con Consequently the tho cost cot of or manufacture would be he higher and necessarily the retail price would also be higher while the wage earner earnor would woul have less les work worl and less wages wages and those who sell sel supplies to the tho wage e earner unel would do less les business Make all al the American Amerian goods boods you youcan youcan ou can cn sell sel them where you ou can at the best prices you OU can can and you ou have the thebus bus busy American factory which after nh all al Is the determining factory actor In American Amer Amer- Jean ican prosperity based on protection full ful protection to American Industries industries Indus indus- tries American labor American capital capital cpI cpI- capi capi- tal and American executive ability L Los s Angeles Ca Cal |